Hour 1: Giants Starters

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And a good afternoon, everybody. This is indeed The Michael Kay Show. We thank you for joining us on this Monday. It's November, November. It's October 19, 2026 Me and you for two. Those are the rules of engagement for the fastest moving two hours in sports talk radio. And it's fast moving because of you, my co-host. And the membership number is 1-800-919-3776.

1-800-919-3776. Hope everybody had a good weekend. You didn't have a good weekend if you were depending on the two pack for sure. I had a market correction over the weekend.

I got the Ravens game wrong. They lost to the Browns. My last second kick. And then I knew it. I took the Patriots and I gave the seven and a half. And I just knew when the Patriots missed the extra point on a touchdown, I turned to my son. We were watching the game together. That's it. It's over. He said, well, I said, that's going to be the difference. And that's exactly what the difference was. So I went for 2 I apologize to all of you that depend on the two pack for rent, for groceries, things like that. You shouldn't do that. But I apologize for my first winless weekend. And I'm sad about it. So I am now 7 and 5 in 12 games this year. Still not awful, but not good. Not good at all. We will start it off now with the Big Blue Report, brought to you by Kings Hawaiian. Kept wondering, why were the Giants underdogs at home? What does Vegas know that we don't know? Now we know what Vegas knows. Giants aren't all that good yet.

There's things that they don't do well.

New Orleans, with fire lit under it by its owner, they had to win that game and they did. Jumped out to an early lead, 34 to 10, not so early. Into the fourth quarter it was 34, 10 Giants made a spirited comeback behind JJ. McCarthy, but they ended up losing 34, 27 And at that point, no moral victories. If you're going to be a real true contender, you have to beat a team like the New Orleans Saints at home. And you didn't. Doesn't mean that they won't be a true contender sometime during the season, but at this point they're not. At this point, they are not. But now, as we predicted, when they made that trade for JJ. McCarthy, they are in a situation where they're in a quarterback, if it's not a controversy, it's certainly a quandary. What do you do? Jamis Winston didn't play well yesterday. And why is that a surprise? You know, it's all part of the, quote unquote, Jamis experience. He's going to have good games, he's going to have great games, he's going to have awful games, he's going to have bad games. Yesterday was an awful game. It was bad. And by the way, in this league, it's awfully hard to play quarterback when you don't have a running game. And the Giants don't have a running game. And John Harbaugh is kind of playing a game as well. You know, somebody has to step up. He's got four different guys that he's trying. Somebody has to step up and grab the job. Well, how do you grab the job? When you don't get carries, when you don't get consistent work. What I would say to John Harbaugh is make a decision. You see them during practice. Who's the best? Put them out there. I'm going to get it. Let them get a lot of carries. And then also, there's been a honeymoon period for John Harbaugh. Everything he's done, it's been perfect. His dealings with the media, occasionally testy, with the questioning about OBJ. But for the most part, it's all been unicorns and rainbows. But when you watch the post-game press conference, like I did yesterday after that loss, he's just another coach when it comes to dealing with the media. I mean, really, are we playing some antics games? Kamps, Attaboo wasn't benched.